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About the Author

Dick Davis is an Englishman who has lived for most of his adult life outside his own country - in Greece, Italy, Iran and the United States. He is currently a professor of Persian at Ohio State University in Columbus.

Works by Dick Davis

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Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (2013) — Translator — 133 copies

The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women (2019) — Translator — 75 copies

Epic and Sedition: The Case of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (1992) 15 copies, 1 review

Belonging: Poems (2002) 13 copies

A Trick of Sunlight: Poems (2006) 12 copies

I am a Bird from Paradise: Hafez (2025) — Translator — 11 copies

Love in Another Language: Collected Poems and Selected Translations (2017) 7 copies

Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams (1996) 5 copies

Seeing the World (1980) 4 copies

Devices and Desires: New and Selected Poems 1967-1987 (2004) 3 copies

A Kind of Love: Selected and New Poems (1991) 3 copies

Wisdom and Wilderness: The Achievement of Yvor Winters (1983) 2 copies

Lares: Poems 1985-1986 2 copies

Fast Fiction Volume One : She (1988) 2 copies

'Murder and Joy' in TLS 5136, 7 Sept 2001 [review of Pamuk's 'My Name is Red'] 1 copy

At Home, and Far from Home: Poems on Iran and Persian Culture (2009) 1 copy

Panthea's Children: Hellenistic Novels and Medieval Persian Romances (Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series) (2002) 1 copy

The Covenant: Poems 1979-1983 (1984) 1 copy

In the Distance (1975) 1 copy

Four Visitations. (1985) 1 copy

A Millenium of Classical Persian Poetry: A Guide to the Reading and Understanding of Persian Poetry from the Tenth to th 1 copy

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The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám (FitzGerald) (1120) — Editor, some editions — 6,071 copies, 87 reviews

The Conference of the Birds (1177) — Translator, some editions; Translator — 1,616 copies, 16 reviews

The Odes of Horace (0023) — Translator, some editions — 968 copies, 7 reviews

Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (1010) — Translator, some editions — 942 copies, 7 reviews

The Little Virtues (1962) — Translator, some editions — 741 copies, 20 reviews

180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005) — Contributor — 405 copies, 9 reviews

My Uncle Napoleon (1973) — Translator, some editions — 385 copies, 9 reviews

The Best American Poetry 2018 (2018) — Contributor — 98 copies, 1 review

Rostam: Tales of Love and War from the Shahnameh (Penguin Classics) (2002) — Translator — 64 copies, 2 reviews

Garden of the Brave in War: Recollections of Iran (1980) — Introduction, some editions — 56 copies

The Legend of Seyavash (Penguin Classics) (1992) — Translator — 47 copies

The Lion and the Throne: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Vol. 1 (1998) — Translator — 27 copies, 1 review

Sunset of Empire: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Vol. 3 (2003) — Translator — 17 copies

Fathers and Sons: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Vol. 2 (v. 2) (2000) — Translator — 16 copies

Three Poets in Conversation: Dick Davis, Rachel Hadas, Timothy Steele (2006) — Contributor — 3 copies

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